On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 11:21, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Mar 1, 2021, at 09:49, Joshua Root wrote: > > > Once that's done, there's no problem adding lots of them in a single commit. > > It can be difficult to get approval from a large number of maintainers for a > single PR. If you're going to submit a PR that does a mass update for this > that affects ports of many maintainers, to make it as simple as possible for > everyone and to avoid the possibility of it being rejected or delayed I > strongly advise you to limit the commit to ONLY adding py39 support and not > performing any other changes. (Don't update a port, don't fix formatting, > don't add dependencies, etc.) > > You may want to do it in small enough batches that the CI infrastructure can > test within the allotted build time. If not, we will have to take you word > for it that they do all in fact build, so please be absolutely certain that > you have verified that they do build before submitting.
We sometimes do batches of all the 1000+ perl ports as that's infeasible to do manually (nobody will test 1000+ ports if they build and work correctly on his computer). (I would usually check the buildbot results and open tickets for those that fail.) Mojca
